The Rooster year (Metal 金, yin) meets a Taurus sun (Earth, Fixed).
Metal · yinEarth · Fixed酉 yǒu
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
10 of 12
Branch
酉 (yǒu)
Year element
Metal 金 · yin
Sun sign
Taurus
Sign element
Earth
Modality
Fixed
Ruling planet
Venus
Hours ruled
17:00–18:59
Season · direction
Autumn · West
These values are computed from the Earthly Branch and tropical sign, not looked up in a table. The year element follows the sexagenary cycle; the sign facts follow the tropical zodiac.
Here the elements actually agree, and it shows. Metal and Earth both prize what lasts, so the Taurus Rooster builds a life with the patience of someone who expects to live in it for decades. Venus softens the Rooster's habitual fault-finding into connoisseurship; this person doesn't nitpick so much as insist on the good version of everything, the real coffee, the proper shelf, the well-made coat that outlives three cheap ones. Fixed earth gives the yin Metal a place to settle, and the settling suits it. They love slowly and then permanently, treating commitment as an investment they intend to protect. That can look like stubbornness when it's really a refusal to redo a decision they already made well. At work they stay unhurried and unmovable, quietly maintaining the standard while flashier people burn out. The catch is that comfort and correctness can fuse into a fortress. Once they decide a thing is settled, prying them loose to reconsider it takes more leverage than most people are willing to spend.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Rooster year notices the detail that makes or breaks the whole, filtered through a Taurus sun that brings sensual steadiness. As a fixed sign, the Taurus side holds things. It commits hard and changes direction reluctantly, which is both its anchor and its trap. The blend reads as all of a piece, the kind of person who organizes, audits, and refuses to ship something half-right while wanting, underneath, what every Taurus wants: security it can actually feel.
In love
In love, the Rooster shows care through attention and honest, sometimes blunt, feedback, while the Taurus side gives comfort and follow-through. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is security it can actually feel, and they give devotion the Rooster's way. Read traditionally, the 酉 branch (autumn, oriented West) describes exactly this pattern of advance and withdrawal in intimacy.
Career
At work, the Rooster organizes, audits, and refuses to ship something half-right. The Taurus layer adds comfort and follow-through, and the fixed cast means this person holds things. Venus-ruled, the Taurus Rooster is at its strongest given a clear aim and the room to pursue it its own way.
The shadow side
The shadow side is specific. The Rooster in this person criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping; the Taurus in them can over-rely on sensual steadiness. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping reinforcing a Taurus that digs in. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Taurus Rooster combines the Rooster year (Metal, yin) with a Taurus sun (Earth, Fixed, ruled by Venus). The Taurus Rooster sets Rooster's exacting precision against Taurus's sensual steadiness. Here the Eastern and Western readings point the same way: the metal of the animal year and the earth of the sun sign reinforce each other rather than pulling apart, which tends to make the character unusually consistent.
Do the Eastern and Western sides of a Taurus Rooster agree?
Yes. The Metal of the Rooster year and the Earth of the Taurus sun reinforce each other, which tends to make the character unusually consistent.
Who is the Rooster most compatible with?
In the branch relations, the Rooster's natural ally (六合) is the Dragon, its trine partners (三合) are the Snake and Ox, and its classic clash (六沖) is the Rabbit.
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For entertainment only. This page presents traditional astrological compatibility frameworks (Theodora Lau's Triangle of Affinity for Chinese astrology; classical Hellenistic correspondences for Western signs). Readings are not psychological, medical, financial, or relationship advice.
